Now, I'm not a neurologist, but unless I am suuper off track here, the brain is in the head, yes? And poop is based mostly quite far from the head? I don't want to presume here, but it seems only very...loosely neurological?

If I recall my anatomy classes correctly, the body does have three to four major paristaltic waves in a day amongst the smaller and more frequent ones we normally think of when thinking paristalsis. These typically follow meals and are what one responds to when feeling the urge to defecate. Not all people act on them. This information would indicate the patient is in tune with his body? Or that he confuses neurology with gastroenterology. I mean, they do both end with ology...

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